Muted Memories: Heritage-Making, Bagamoyo, and the East African Caravan Trade

by Jan Lindström

In the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of porters carried ivory every year from the African interior to Bagamoyo, a port town at the Indian Ocean. In the opposite direction, they carried millions of meters of cloth, manufactured in the USA, Europe, and India. This book examines the centrality of the caravan trade, both culturally and economically, to Bagamoyo's development and cosmopolitan character, while also exploring how this history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789201721
• ISBN13: 9781789201727
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"